Miller Barondess, LLP Achieves Court Victory for Former Patron
Tequila Executive, Ajendra Singh, Who Can Now Proceed With $45 Million
Claim

February 28, 2013 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ajendra Singh, a former Patron Tequila executive, won in the Court of
Appeal last week and will now proceed to trial on his $45 million breach
of contract and fraud claim against Patron Tequila and its owner, John
Paul DeJoria.

As alleged in the complaint, following the death of Patron’s founder
Martin Crowley, Patron’s co-owner, John Paul DeJoria, promised Singh
that if he stayed at the company and oversaw the construction and
operation of Patron’s new tequila factory in Mexico, he would be receive
an equity bonus based on the increased value of the company. For over
five years, Singh did as agreed, helping to build Patron from a small
company with almost no production capacity, to the industry leader
manufacturing and selling 2,000,000 cases annually and becoming a
multi-billion dollar business.

Represented by Mira Hashmall of Miller Barondess, LLP in Los Angeles,
Singh achieved a complete victory in the Court of Appeal, which reversed
the trial court’s grant of summary judgment and its disqualification of
Singh’s trial counsel, Skip Miller, senior partner of Miller Barondess,
LLP. Miller will head up the trial team seeking recovery of the $45
million bonus promised to Singh, against defendants John Paul DeJoria
and Patron Tequila. The case will be tried before a jury in the Santa
Monica Superior Court.

For more information, see the opinion published by the California Court
of Appeals (Patrón Spirits International AG, et al. v. Ajendra Singh,
Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. SC104853).